[Info-vax] VSI and Process Software announcement

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-09-24 02:37:42 +0000, David Froble said:

> I don't use DHCP ....
> 
> Not saying it cannot be useful for some people ....

DHCP Is useful — and ubiquitous — for IPv4 clients and mobile devices, 
and for cases when you're just getting a server going and need to 
connect into and configure it.   Particularly unattended or remote 
servers, and that's something becoming increasingly common.   Not all 
systems have or can have a remotely-accessible and properly-configured 
iLO, after all.

Between dynamic DNS, mDNS and other such tools, it's becoming 
increasingly common to not even need to know the IPv4 address — and 
nobody wants to type the IPv6 address — of the target system.  Not all 
network services can or do correctly deal with IP address changes, but 
we're headed that way, too.

The less I need somebody on-site to know and do and deal with — and 
connected to the console port or whatever — when working on an OpenVMS 
installation or troubleshooting, the better things work out.

Having a new server boot to USB stick — DVD drives are failure-prone, 
and are becoming less common, and don't and won't exist in some 
environments — or from local network boot services such as InfoServer 
or otherwise, and having the OpenVMS installation environment support 
DHCP networking and mDNS would be really nice, for instance.  (Yes, 
there are boot-time security implications, of course.)



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